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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 09 STATE 132759 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF
SMIG 
SUBJECT: PREPARING THE NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN 
PERSONS (TIP) REPORT 
 
REF:  (A) 2006 STATE 202745; (B) 2007 STATE 150188 
 
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SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST 
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¶1. (U) This is an action message for all posts. See paras 
12-29. This cable describes the annual reporting 
requirement for Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and provides 
instructions for posts' contributions.  The Trafficking 
Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000, as amended, 
requires the Department to submit this report to Congress 
by June 1st.  Please note that Congress recently passed 
the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection 
Reauthorization Act of 2008; once this legislation is 
enacted, the Department will provide guidance on 
provisions that impact the TIP Report and post reporting 
requirements.  Post must submit responses (attn: G/TIP, 
G-ACBlank, and relevant regional bureau offices) to 
questions in paragraphs 27-30 by February 13, 2009, which 
is two weeks earlier than in previous years.  Please 
answer each question individually, either including the 
original question or identifying responses with the 
corresponding number (letter) of the question in this 
cable.  Please include KTIP in the tags line.  END 
SUMMARY 
 
¶2. (U) The TVPA (full text available at 
www.state.gov/g/tip) mandates that the Department report 
on the degree to which governments of those countries 
with a significant number of victims of severe forms of 
trafficking comply with the law's minimum standards for 
the elimination of trafficking. For implementation 
guidelines interpreting the TVPA's minimum standards, 
please see Reftel B.  Please note that the Report only 
reviews government actions to combat trafficking and does 
not consider activities by non-governmental organizations 
when determining tier rankings.  The criteria which must 
be addressed, in order to assess a government's 
compliance, are similar but not identical to those 
covered by the Trafficking in Persons and Forced Labor 
sections of the annual country reports on human rights 
practices. 
 
¶3. (U) Relevant information previously provided for the 
Human Rights Country Reports or the TIP Interim 
Assessment (for posts in "Special Watch List" countries) 
may be included in post's submission.  While information 
submitted for last year's report may be used -- 
particularly in detailing a country's laws covering TIP - 
- it is essential that post's response reflect any 
changes or updates since March 2008. 
 
¶4. (U) This report encompasses all forms of human 
trafficking, which involves the use of force, fraud, or 
coercion for the purpose of subjecting a person to 
commercial sexual exploitation or forced labor, including 
involuntary domestic servitude, bonded labor, forced 
marriage, or other slave-like conditions.  The term 
"fraud" includes actions used to induce the victim's 
behavior.  In reporting on human trafficking, posts 
should also be aware that the TVPA definition of 
trafficking does not require that a person be moved from 
one place to another.  Trafficking may occur across 
international borders or internally within a country. 
 
¶5. (U) Labor trafficking often involves work in the 
agricultural industry, work as domestic servants, or work 
in low-skilled jobs, such as the fishing, mining, 
construction, and textile industries, or restaurants and 
markets.  Labor trafficking can involve persons who have 
migrated illegally or legally and consensually or 
voluntarily accepted legitimate offers of labor, but 
subsequently fall victim to conditions of involuntary 
servitude.  When contracts are not honored or are 
replaced with new contracts containing less favorable 
terms after workers arrive in a destination country, 
workers may become victims of trafficking if they are 
forced or coerced into continuing to provide their labor 
under these changed conditions.  Please keep in mind that 
for the purposes of the TIP Report, all forced labor is 
TIP. 
 
¶6. (U) Smuggling vs. Trafficking: There is an important 
distinction between human trafficking and migrant 
smuggling.  Unlike migrant smuggling where the individual 
 
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is free to go upon reaching the destination, the purpose 
of human trafficking is exploitation, achieved through 
force, fraud or coercion.  Posts should try to determine 
if host-country government statistics and information 
clearly distinguish between smuggling and human 
trafficking activity, and do not conflate these two 
crimes.  However, people can be trafficked even after 
they willingly involve themselves with smugglers.  It is 
not determinative that a trafficked person initially 
consented to or was initially complicit with a smuggler 
in the smuggling activity.   Traffickers often deceive 
their victims about the true nature of promised 
employment or circumstances at the destination. 
 
¶7. (U) Children in Prostitution: Pursuant to the TVPA, 
the use of force, fraud, or coercion is irrelevant to 
children (those under 18 years of age) trafficked for 
sexual exploitation.  A child who is being prostituted by 
a third party is presumed to be a trafficking victim in 
accordance with the TVPA.  Thus, in contrast to cases of 
adult trafficking, proof of the trafficker's use of 
force, fraud, or coercion to obtain the child's consent 
to sex trafficking is not/not necessary.  (Note: THIS 
ONLY APPLIES FOR SEX TRAFFICKING). 
 
¶8. (U) A Significant Number of Victims: The 2009 TIP 
Report must include all countries of origin, transit, or 
destination for a "significant number of victims" of 
severe forms of trafficking in persons. Since the TIP 
Report's creation, the Department has defined 
"significant number" in this context to be "on the order 
of 100 or more victims." This includes victims from 
outside the host country who enter or transit the 
country, as well as victims trafficked within their own 
countries.  Even if a post believes that a particular 
country does not have a significant number of trafficking 
victims, that post must still provide information to the 
Department.  All posts must address the questions in 
para. 23(A) and (B), including the points on sources and 
reliability.  If the answer to the question is "no" (no 
trafficking problem), and post specifies its sources and 
indicates why it believes the sources to be adequate and 
reliable, post should then respond only to questions in 
paras. 22(B-J), 28(A-E, and O), and 29(C and G).  If the 
answers to the first questions in para. 23(B) are "yes" 
(there is a trafficking problem), post must respond to 
all the questions in paras. 23 - 27.  Inclusion of a 
country on the TIP report, or placement on one of the 
three tiers, may change from year to year. 
 
¶9. (U) Law Enforcement Data Collection: In accordance 
with the TVPA, a country will be presumed not to have 
vigorously investigated, prosecuted, convicted, and 
sentenced traffickers (TVPA Minimum Standard 4, criterion 
(b)(1)) if it does not provide data, consistent with the 
capacity of the country to obtain the data, on such law 
enforcement activity.  Similarly, a country with an 
identified TIP-related corruption problem will be 
presumed not to have vigorously investigated, prosecuted, 
convicted, and sentenced officials who participate in or 
facilitate trafficking if it does not provide data, 
consistent with the capacity of the country to obtain the 
data, on such law enforcement activity (TVPA Minimum 
Standard 4, criteria (b)(7)) (see para 11 for more 
guidance on anti-corruption efforts).  Provision of such 
data will be crucial in evaluating whether a country is 
in compliance with key TVPA minimum standards and help to 
determine tier ranking. 
 
¶10. (U) Please avoid reporting "Trafficking-Related" Law 
Enforcement Efforts:  The Department does not accept 
"trafficking-related" (e.g. prostitution, child 
defilement/debauchery, and human smuggling offenses) law 
enforcement statistics for inclusion in the TIP Report. 
Instead, the Department requests data on "investigations, 
prosecutions, convictions, and sentences of trafficking 
crimes."  The Department will accept only law enforcement 
data that falls into one of two categories: (1) 
investigations, prosecutions, convictions, and sentences 
for offenses that are EXPLICTLY DEFINED AS TRAFFICKING; 
or (2) investigations, prosecutions, convictions, and 
sentences for offenses that are not defined explicitly as 
trafficking but for which the facts - as presented by the 
host government -- constitute a trafficking offense. Data 
on TIP cases needs to be disaggregated from data on other 
offenses, such as migrant smuggling. 
 
¶11. (U) Data on Law Enforcement Efforts Against TIP- 
related 
Complicity/Corruption:  One of the ten criteria under the 
TVPA's Fourth Minimum Standard (section 108(a)(4) of the 
TVPA) is the requirement that governments provide data on 
 
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investigations, prosecutions, convictions and sentences 
of "public officials who participate in or facilitate 
severe forms of trafficking."  The Department applies 
this criterion to countries in which there is reliable 
information indicating that a TIP-related corruption 
problem exists.  The Department seeks data for 
investigations, prosecutions, convictions, and sentences 
of corrupt public officials that involve crimes RELATED 
TO TIP (including but not limited to the fraudulent 
issuance of visas or passports to smugglers involved in 
TIP; tip-offs given to trafficking rings of impending law 
enforcement action; bribes accepted by government 
officials to facilitate the movement of trafficked 
victims; and direct involvement in trafficking). 
 
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GUIDELINES FOR POST SUBMISSIONS 
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¶12. (U) ACTION FOR ALL ADDRESSEES:  Department requests 
all 
Posts provide their submissions slugged for G/TIP, G- 
ACBlank, and relevant regional bureau offices, based on 
this guidance and checklist by February 13 so there is 
adequate time to review and assess host government's 
anti- trafficking efforts before the Congressionally 
mandated deadline of June 1, 2009.  (Note: this deadline 
for post submissions was set two weeks earlier than 
previous years in order to enable additional time for 
discussions with post.)  Please use the KTIP tag in the 
tags line.  The questions in the list below (paragraphs 
23-27) are not exhaustive and posts are encouraged to 
provide further detail or information.  Please address 
each major subheading and answer each question that is 
applicable.  If not applicable, please so indicate. 
 
¶13. (U) The TIP report will cover efforts by governments 
during the time period from April 2008 to mid-February 
¶2009.  However, if there is a major trafficking-related 
event or events in late February or later that warrants 
mention, post should send a supplemental response no 
later than April 15th and the new information will be 
included in the report. 
 
¶14. (U) Post reporting officers should seek information 
from all available sources, including, but not limited 
to:  government (including the Foreign, Interior, Labor, 
Justice, Tourism, and any other ministries that address 
trafficking, consular services, prosecutors, police, 
border guards, and immigration officers); NGOs (including 
charitable and religious organizations that work with 
trafficked victims), trade unions, hospitals and/or 
health centers; international organizations; media 
reports; research studies; and other Mission elements 
(other sections, consulates, other USG agencies 
represented at post, etc.).  (Note: In some cases NGOs 
may not want to be publicly identified for safety 
reasons.  In such cases, please provide the 
identification to the Department with a statement that it 
not be publicly disclosed. End Note) 
 
¶15. (U) Posts are asked to provide information on all 
forms of exploitation that are induced by force, fraud, 
or coercion.  This includes, but is not limited to: 
trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation, including 
forced prostitution of adults and minors placed by third 
parties in prostitution; and trafficking for labor 
purposes, including involuntary servitude of adults and 
children, bonded labor and unlawfully conscripted child 
soldiers. 
 
¶16. (U) As with previous years' reports, the Department 
will use information from NGOs, the press, and 
international organizations in addition to post reporting 
in compiling the report.  In addition, G/TIP is inviting 
NGOs and intergovernmental organizations to send 
information on trafficking directly to the office via 
mail or via a G/TIP e-mail address:  tipreport@state.gov, 
which was established four years ago.  The office will 
use this information to supplement the information 
provided by posts.  The office will ensure that such 
information and its sources are shared with the relevant 
post in a timely manner, in part so that posts are able 
to comment on the reliability of the source and/or 
corroborate the information. 
 
¶17. (U) Active Voice, Past Tense, Precise Dates, and Sums 
of Money:  In reporting anti-TIP actions undertaken by 
governments between March 2008 and mid-February 2009, 
please use the active voice and identify specifically the 
entity undertaking the action.  This is particularly 
important for activities that are potentially carried out 
 
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by more than one party; e.g. victim protection 
activities.  Please use the past tense for all activities 
conducted by the government between March 2008 and 
February 2009, and include precise dates (month and year) 
of the activities.  If citing commitments of future 
action, use the future tense and include dates of 
projected completion, if available. As a general rule, 
the TIP Report will not include projected activities or 
commitments of future action as evidence of meeting the 
minimum standards.  When citing the financial worth or 
funding amount for an activity, please provide its U.S. 
dollar equivalent.  Government actions taken in 
partnership with non-governmental actors or international 
organizations may be credited if government 
support/participation is tangible and substantial. 
 
¶18. (U) Posts' reports should be classified "SBU." Posts 
may provide relevant information that is classified, for 
example on corruption, in separate classified cables. 
 
¶19. (U) As soon as each post submits its response, G/TIP 
will review the information and draft the country 
narratives.  G/TIP may query posts, including relevant 
regional POCs, for further clarification and additional 
information as necessary.  By the beginning of April 
2009, G/TIP plans to share with post draft country tier 
placements and supporting narratives.  G/TIP will then 
convene departmental meetings, in which the regional and 
functional bureaus participate, to review these draft 
country placements and reports.  Posts will have an 
opportunity to formally comment on their host country's 
placement and TIP report narratives through the regional 
bureaus' points of contact at these meetings. 
 
¶20. (U) Posts may address questions to G/TIP staff as 
follows: 
 
For European countries covered by EUR/AGS, EUR/SE, 
EUR/UBI, EUR/SCE, EUR/WE, and EUR/UMB contact both 
Jennifer Donnelly (202) 312-9655, DonnellyJS@state.gov, 
and Amy Rofman (202) 312-9655, RofmanAJ@state.gov; 
 
For European countries covered by EUR/NB, EUR/NCE, 
EUR/RUS, and the Caucasus, contact Megan Hall, (202) 312- 
9844, HallML@state.gov; 
 
For Africa (East, Great Lakes, Malawi, Mozambique, 
Namibia, and Zimbabwe), contact Rachel Yousey, (202) 312- 
9861, YouseyRM@state.gov; 
 
For Africa (West and Central except Great Lakes), contact 
Veronica Zeitlin, (202) 312-9673, ZeitlinVK@state.gov; 
 
For Africa (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, 
Swaziland, and Zambia), contact Stephanie Kronenburg, 
(202) 312-0677, KronenburgSA@state.gov; 
 
For the Central Asian Republics, contact Megan Hall 
(contact info above); 
 
For the Near East and South Asia, contact Mark Taylor, 
(202) 312-9643, TaylorMB@state.gov; 
 
For Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, contact 
Stephanie Kronenburg (contact info above); 
 
For Northeast and Southeast Asia, contact Christine Chan- 
Downer, (202) 312-9844, ChanCW@state.gov; 
 
For WHA (Central and South America), contact Barbara J. 
Fleck, (202) 312-9653, FleckBJ@state.gov; and 
 
For WHA (Caribbean), contact Stephanie Kronenburg 
(contact info above). 
 
The regional bureau points of contact on TIP issues are: 
 
AF/RSA: Linda Muncy, (202) 647-5803, MuncyLH@state.gov 
 
EAP/RSP: Dan Tikvart, (202) 647-2313, TikvartDJ@state.gov 
 
EUR/PGI: Jody Buckneberg, (202) 647-7117, 
BucknebergJL@state.gov 
 
NEA/RA: Rina Chatterji, (202) 647-3691, 
ChatterjiR@state.gov 
 
SCA/RA: Jessica Mazzone, (202) 647-8080, 
MazzoneJR@state.gov 
 
WHA/PCC: Scott Miller, (202) 647-5333, MillerSA@state.gov 
 
 
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¶21. (U) Please slug all submissions for G/TIP, G-ACBlank, 
INL, DRL, PRM, and the relevant regional bureaus' offices 
(EUR/PGI, WHA/PPC, AF/RSA, SCA/RA, EAP/RSP, and NEA/RA). 
Also, please include the following tags:  KTIP, KCRM, 
PHUM, KWMN, SMIG, KFRD, ASEC, PREF, and ELAB. 
Additionally, please info USAID, Department of Justice, 
Department of Homeland Security, Department of Labor, and 
Department of Treasury.  Lastly, please info the 
appropriate post for any other country mentioned in your 
report. 
 
¶22. (U) In compiling the required information, Posts 
should designate a single point of contact on 
trafficking.  Please provide the name, telephone number, 
and fax number of this point of contact in your cable. 
Posts are also asked to quantify the number of hours 
spent per embassy officer and the ranks of those officers 
in the preparation of the TIP report cable.  OMB requires 
the State Department to account for personnel time spent 
on this report. 
 
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REPORTING QUESTIONS 
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¶23. (U) THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION: 
 
-- A. What is (are) the source(s) of available 
information on trafficking in persons?  What plans are in 
place (if any) to undertake further documentation of 
human trafficking?  How reliable are these sources? 
 
-- B. Is the country a country of origin, transit, and/or 
destination for internationally trafficked men, women, or 
children?  Does trafficking occur within the country's 
borders?  If so, does internal trafficking occur in 
territory outside of the government's control (e.g. in a 
civil war situation)?  To where are people trafficked? 
For what purposes are they trafficked?  Provide, where 
possible, numbers or estimates for each group of 
trafficking victims.  Have there been any changes in the 
TIP situation since the last TIP Report (e.g. changes in 
destinations)? 
 
-- C. What kind of conditions are the victims trafficked 
into? 
 
-- D. Vulnerability to TIP: Are certain groups of persons 
more at risk of being trafficked (e.g. women and 
children, boys versus girls, certain ethnic groups, 
refugees, IDPs, etc.)? 
 
-- E. Traffickers and Their Methods: Who are the 
traffickers/exploiters?  Are they independent business 
people?  Small or family-based crime groups?  Large 
international organized crime syndicates?  What methods 
are used to approach victims?  For example, are they 
offered lucrative jobs, sold by their families, or 
approached by friends of friends?  What methods are used 
to move the victims (e.g., are false documents being 
used?).  Are employment, travel, and tourism agencies or 
marriage brokers involved with or fronting for 
traffickers or crime groups to traffic individuals? 
 
¶24. (U) SETTING THE SCENE FOR THE GOVERNMENT'S ANTI-TIP 
EFFORTS: 
 
-- A. Does the government acknowledge that trafficking is 
a problem in the country?  If not, why not? 
 
-- B. Which government agencies are involved in anti- 
trafficking efforts and which agency, if any, has the 
lead? 
 
-- C. What are the limitations on the government's 
ability to address this problem in practice?  For 
example, is funding for police or other institutions 
inadequate?  Is overall corruption a problem?  Does the 
government lack the resources to aid victims? 
 
-- D. To what extent does the government systematically 
monitor its anti-trafficking efforts (on all fronts -- 
prosecution, victim protection, and prevention) and 
periodically make available, publicly or privately and 
directly or through regional/international organizations, 
its assessments of these anti-trafficking efforts? 
 
¶25. (U) INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF TRAFFICKERS: 
 
For questions A-D, posts should highlight in particular 
whether or not the country has enacted any new 
legislation since the last TIP report. 
 
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-- A. Existing Laws against TIP: Does the country have a 
law or laws specifically prohibiting trafficking in 
persons -- both for sexual exploitation and labor?  If 
so, please specifically cite the name of the law(s) and 
its date of enactment and provide the exact language 
[actual copies preferable] of the TIP provisions.  Please 
provide a full inventory of trafficking laws, including 
non-criminal statutes that allow for civil penalties 
against alleged trafficking crimes (e.g., civil 
forfeiture laws and laws against illegal debt). Does the 
law(s) cover both internal and transnational forms of 
trafficking?  If not, under what other laws can 
traffickers be prosecuted?  For example, are there laws 
against slavery or the exploitation of prostitution by 
means of force, fraud, or coercion?  Are these other laws 
being used in trafficking cases? 
 
-- B. Punishment of Sex Trafficking Offenses: What are 
the prescribed and imposed penalties for trafficking 
people for sexual exploitation? 
 
-- C. Punishment of Labor Trafficking Offenses: What are 
the prescribed and imposed penalties for trafficking for 
labor exploitation, such as forced or bonded labor?  If 
your country is a source country for labor migrants, do 
the government's laws provide for criminal punishment -- 
i.e. jail time -- for labor recruiters who engage in 
recruitment of workers using knowingly fraudulent or 
deceptive offers with the purpose of subjecting workers 
to trafficking in the destination country?  If your 
country is a destination for labor migrants, are there 
laws punishing employers or labor agents who confiscate 
workers' passports or travel documents for the purpose of 
trafficking, switch contracts without the worker's 
consent as a means to keep the worker in a state of 
service, or withhold payment of salaries as means of 
keeping the worker in a state of service? 
 
-- D. What are the prescribed penalties for rape or 
forcible sexual assault? (NOTE:  This is necessary to 
evaluate a foreign government's compliance with TVPA 
Minimum Standard 2, which reads: "For the knowing 
commission of any act of sex trafficking . . . the 
government of the country should prescribe punishment 
commensurate with that for grave crimes, such as forcible 
sexual assault (rape)."  END NOTE) 
 
-- E. Law Enforcement Statistics: Did the government 
prosecute any cases against human trafficking offenders 
during the reporting period?  If so, provide numbers of 
investigations, prosecutions, convictions, and sentences 
imposed, including details on plea bargains and fines, if 
relevant and available.  Please note the number of 
convicted traffickers who received suspended sentences 
and the number who received only a fine as punishment. 
Please indicate which laws were used to investigate, 
prosecute, convict, and sentence traffickers.  Also, if 
possible, please disaggregate numbers of cases by type of 
TIP (labor vs. commercial sexual exploitation) and 
victims (children under 18 years of age vs. adults).  If 
in a labor source country, did the government criminally 
prosecute labor recruiters who recruit workers using 
knowingly fraudulent or deceptive offers or by imposing 
fees or commissions for the purpose of subjecting the 
worker to debt bondage?  Did the government in a labor 
destination country criminally prosecute employers or 
labor agents who confiscate workers' passports/travel 
documents for the purpose of trafficking, switch 
contracts or terms of employment without the worker's 
consent to keep workers in a state of service, use 
physical or sexual abuse or the threat of such abuse to 
keep workers in a state of service, or withhold payment 
of salaries as a means to keep workers in a state of 
service?  What were the actual punishments imposed on 
persons convicted of these offenses?  Are the traffickers 
serving the time sentenced?  If not, why not? 
 
-- F. Does the government provide any specialized 
training for government officials in how to recognize, 
investigate, and prosecute instances of trafficking? 
Specify whether NGOs, international organizations, and/or 
the USG provide specialized training for host government 
officials. 
 
--G. Does the government cooperate with other governments 
in the investigation and prosecution of trafficking 
cases?  If possible, provide the number of cooperative 
international investigations on trafficking during the 
reporting period. 
 
-- H. Does the government extradite persons who are 
 
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charged with trafficking in other countries?  If so, 
please provide the number of traffickers extradited 
during the reporting period, and the number of 
trafficking extraditions pending. In particular, please 
report on any pending or concluded extraditions of 
trafficking offenders to the United States. 
 
-- I. Is there evidence of government involvement in or 
tolerance of trafficking, on a local or institutional 
level?  If so, please explain in detail. 
 
-- J. If government officials are involved in 
trafficking, what steps has the government taken to end 
such participation?  Please indicate the number of 
government officials investigated and prosecuted for 
involvement in trafficking or trafficking-related 
corruption during the reporting period.  Have any been 
convicted?  What sentence(s) was imposed?  Please specify 
if officials received suspended sentences, or were given 
a fine, fired, or reassigned to another position within 
the government as punishment.  Please indicate the number 
of convicted officials that received suspended sentences 
or received only a fine as punishment. 
 
-- K. Is prostitution legalized or decriminalized? 
Specifically, are the activities of the prostitute 
criminalized?  Are the activities of the brothel 
owner/operator, clients, pimps, and enforcers 
criminalized?  Are these laws enforced?  If prostitution 
is legal and regulated, what is the legal minimum age for 
this activity?  Note that in countries with federalist 
systems, prostitution laws may be under state or local 
jurisdiction and may differ among jurisdictions. 
 
-- L. For countries that contribute troops to 
international peacekeeping efforts, please indicate 
whether the government vigorously investigated, 
prosecuted, convicted and sentenced nationals of the 
country deployed abroad as part of a peacekeeping or 
other similar mission who engaged in or facilitated 
severe forms of trafficking or who exploited victims of 
such trafficking. 
 
-- M. If the country has an identified problem of child 
sex tourists coming to the country, what are the 
countries of origin for sex tourists?  How many foreign 
pedophiles did the government prosecute or 
deport/extradite to their country of origin?  If your 
host country's nationals are perpetrators of child sex 
tourism, do the country's child sexual abuse laws have 
extraterritorial coverage (similar to the U.S. PROTECT 
Act) to allow the prosecution of suspected sex tourists 
for crimes committed abroad?  If so, how many of the 
country's nationals were prosecuted and/or convicted 
during the reporting period under the extraterritorial 
provision(s) for traveling to other countries to engage 
in child sex tourism? 
 
¶26. (U) PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS: 
 
-- A.  What kind of protection is the government able 
under existing law to provide for victims and witnesses? 
Does it provide these protections in practice? 
 
-- B.  Does the country have victim care facilities 
(shelters or drop-in centers) which are accessible to 
trafficking victims?  Do foreign victims have the same 
access to care as domestic trafficking victims?  Where 
are child victims placed (e.g., in shelters, foster care, 
or juvenile justice detention centers)?  Does the country 
have specialized care for adults in addition to children? 
Does the country have specialized care for male victims 
as well as female?   Does the country have specialized 
facilities dedicated to helping victims of trafficking? 
Are these facilities operated by the government or by 
NGOs?  What is the funding source of these facilities? 
Please estimate the amount the government spent (in U.S. 
dollar equivalent) on these specialized facilities 
dedicated to helping trafficking victims during the 
reporting period. 
 
-- C.  Does the government provide trafficking victims 
with access to legal, medical and psychological services? 
If so, please specify the kind of assistance provided. 
Does the government provide funding or other forms of 
support to foreign or domestic NGOs and/or international 
organizations for providing these services to trafficking 
victims?  Please explain and provide any funding amounts 
in U.S. dollar equivalent.  If assistance provided was 
in-kind, please specify exact assistance.  Please specify 
if funding for assistance comes from a federal budget or 
from regional or local governments. 
 
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-- D. Does the government assist foreign trafficking 
victims, for example, by providing temporary to permanent 
residency status, or other relief from deportation?  If 
so, please explain. 
 
-- E. Does the government provide longer-term shelter or 
housing benefits to victims or other resources to aid the 
victims in rebuilding their lives? 
 
-- F. Does the government have a referral process to 
transfer victims detained, arrested or placed in 
protective custody by law enforcement authorities to 
institutions that provide short- or long-term care 
(either government or NGO-run)? 
 
-- G. What is the total number of trafficking victims 
identified during the reporting period?  Of these, how 
many victims were referred to care facilities for 
assistance by law enforcement authorities during the 
reporting period?  By social services officials?  What is 
the number of victims assisted by government-funded 
assistance programs and those not funded by the 
government during the reporting period? 
 
-- H. Do the government's law enforcement, immigration, 
and social services personnel have a formal system of 
proactively identifying victims of trafficking among 
high-risk persons with whom they come in contact (e.g., 
foreign persons arrested for prostitution or immigration 
violations)?  For countries with legalized prostitution, 
does the government have a mechanism for screening for 
trafficking victims among persons involved in the 
legal/regulated commercial sex trade? 
 
-- I. Are the rights of victims respected?  Are 
trafficking victims detained or jailed?   If so, for how 
long?  Are victims fined?  Are victims prosecuted for 
violations of other laws, such as those governing 
immigration or prostitution? 
 
-- J. Does the government encourage victims to assist in 
the investigation and prosecution of trafficking?  How 
many victims assisted in the investigation and 
prosecution of traffickers during the reporting period? 
May victims file civil suits or seek legal action against 
traffickers?  Does anyone impede victim access to such 
legal redress?  If a victim is a material witness in a 
court case against a former employer, is the victim 
permitted to obtain other employment or to leave the 
country pending trial proceedings?  Are there means by 
which a victim may obtain restitution? 
 
-- K. Does the government provide any specialized 
training for government officials in identifying 
trafficking victims and in the provision of assistance to 
trafficked victims, including the special needs of 
trafficked children?  Does the government provide 
training on protections and assistance to its embassies 
and consulates in foreign countries that are destination 
or transit countries?   What is the number of trafficking 
victims assisted by the host country's embassies or 
consulates abroad during the reporting period?  Please 
explain the type of assistance provided (travel 
documents, referrals to assistance, payment for 
transportation home). 
 
-- L. Does the government provide assistance, such as 
medical aid, shelter, or financial help, to its nationals 
who are repatriated as victims of trafficking? 
 
-- M. Which international organizations or NGOs, if any, 
work with trafficking victims?  What type of services do 
they provide?  What sort of cooperation do they receive 
from local authorities? 
 
¶27. (U) PREVENTION: 
 
-- A. Did the government conduct anti-trafficking 
information or education campaigns during the reporting 
period?  If so, briefly describe the campaign(s), 
including their objectives and effectiveness.  Please 
provide the number of people reached by such awareness 
efforts, if available.  Do these campaigns target 
potential trafficking victims and/or the demand for 
trafficking (e.g. "clients" of prostitutes or 
beneficiaries of forced labor)?  (Note: This can be an 
especially noteworthy effort where prostitution is legal. 
End Note.) 
 
-- B. Does the government monitor immigration and 
emigration patterns for evidence of trafficking?  Do law 
 
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-- C. Is there a mechanism for coordination and 
communication between various agencies, internal, 
international, and multilateral on trafficking-related 
matters, such as a multi-agency working group or a task 
force? 
 
-- D. Does the government have a national plan of action 
to address trafficking in persons?  If the plan was 
developed during the reporting period, which agencies 
were involved in developing it?  Were NGOs consulted in 
the process?  What steps has the government taken to 
implement the action plan? 
 
-- E: What measures has the government taken during the 
reporting period to reduce the demand for commercial sex 
acts?   (see ref B, para. 9(3) for examples) 
 
-- F. Required of all Posts: What measures has the 
government taken during the reporting period to reduce 
the participation in international child sex tourism by 
nationals of the country? 
 
-- G. Required of posts in countries that have 
contributed over 100 troops to international peacekeeping 
efforts (Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, 
Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil,  Cambodia, Cameroon, 
Canada, Chile, China, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Egypt, El 
Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji,  France, Gambia, Germany, 
Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Indonesia, 
Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Korea (South), Malawi, Malaysia, 
Mali, Mongolia, Morocco,  Nepal,  Niger, Nigeria, 
Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal,  Romania, 
Russia, Rwanda, Senegal, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, 
Sri Lanka,  Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, 
Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Yemen, Zambia, and 
Zimbabwe): What measures has the government adopted to 
ensure that its nationals who are deployed abroad as part 
of a peacekeeping or other similar mission do not engage 
in or facilitate severe forms of trafficking or exploit 
victims of such trafficking?  If posts do not provide an 
answer to this question, the Department may consider 
including a statement in the country assessment to the 
effect that "An assessment regarding Country X's efforts 
to ensure that its troops deployed abroad for 
international peacekeeping missions do not engage in or 
facilitate trafficking or exploit trafficking victims was 
unavailable for this reporting period." 
 
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¶28. (U) HEROES:  The introduction to the past four TIP 
Reports has included a section honoring Anti-Trafficking 
"Heroes" These individuals or representatives of 
organizations demonstrate an exceptional commitment to 
fighting TIP above and beyond the scope of their assigned 
work.  The Department encourages post to nominate one or 
more such individuals for inclusion in a similar section 
of the 2009 Report.  Please submit, under a subheading of 
"TIP Hero(es)," a brief description of the individual or 
organization's work, and note that the appropriate 
individual(s) has been vetted through databases available 
to post (e.g. CLASS and any law enforcement systems) to 
ensure they have no visa ineligibilities or other 
derogatory information. 
 
¶29. (U) BEST PRACTICES.  For the past five years the 
Report has carried a section on "Best Practices" in 
addressing TIP.  This section highlights particular 
practices used by governments or NGOs in addressing the 
various challenges of TIP and serves as a useful guide to 
foreign governments and posts as they design anti-TIP 
projects and strategies.  The Department encourages post 
to nominate "best practices" from their host countries 
for showcasing in the 2009 Report.  Please submit, under 
a "Best Practice" subheading, a brief summary of the 
activity or practice, along with the positive effect it 
has had in addressing TIP. 
 
¶30. (U) Department greatly appreciates posts' time and 
assistance in collecting and reporting data for the 2009 
TIP Report, as well as your ongoing efforts to advance 
USG anti-TIP objectives. 
 
¶31. (U) Minimize considered. 
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